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These are SO adorable! Christmas Tree Cupcakes are easy to make but can take a little time. If you don’t want to create an entire forest of them- make one or two and surround them with white or green iced cupcakes!
Ingredients:
Cupcakes of choice
Icing (white and green)
Sprinkles of Choice
White Chocolate
Waffle Ice Cream Cones
Tools Needed:
Star Tip for Icing
Directions:
Ice Cupcakes with White Icing.
When I tell you that this literally lasted 5 minutes- it’s not an exaggeration! This celebration cheesecake dip is a variation of the White Chocolate Cheesecake Cookie Dip we made at a recent family gathering but the kids seemed to like this one even better- maybe it was the colorful sprinkles!
Ingredients:
Directions:
Beat softened cream cheese for several minutes- until it’s fluffy. You may need to scrape the sides several times to keep it going.
Add the extract and sour cream. Mix until completely combined. Add the cake mix and sugar, continuously mixing until combined.
Fold in the Sprinkles and then sprinkle some on top of the serving container.
I served it with Nilla Wafers and it was Amazing. Graham crackers were good too!
In case you don’t know I LOVE White Chocolate!
I am not a baker at all so I often use cake mixes but I found a simple basic cupcake batter recipe here.
Here’s how I adapted the recipe to make it white chocolate!
Ingredients:
2 c. Flour
1/2 tsp Salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 c. butter (softened)
1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 c. milk
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
4 oz White chocolate Morsels
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375.
Prepare liners in cupcake pan.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
Melt chocolate in microwave in 10 second increments stirring between each increment until smooth, allow to cool slightly.
Cream butter and sugar. Add melted chocolate and vanilla and cream again.
Add eggs one at a time.
Slowly add flour, alternating with milk.
Fill liners 3/4 full with cupcake batter.
Bake 18 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Allow to cool completely and frost.
With school starting back up I thought these were too cute not to share!
Ingredients:
Cupcakes
Blue icing
Green icing
Wafer Cookies, Vanilla
Brown M&M
Brown Icing
Red Icing
Directions:
Ice the top 1/2 of the cupcakes with blue icing.
Ice the bottom 1/2 of the cupcakes with green icing.
Cut out a rectangle out of the wafer cookies to make the front of the bus.
Place cookie on top of iced cupcakes.
Use brown M&M candies as wheels.
Use brown icing to create windows and sides of bus.
If desired use the red icing to create the stop arm.
These are super easy cupcakes to make but would be perfect for any backyard BBQ!
Ingredients:
Cupcakes:
1 pkg white cake mix (with no pudding)
Liquid Margarita Mix
2 tbsp lime zest
Icing:
Icing of Choice
Lime Slices or Lime Zest Curls.
Directions:
Preheat oven according to package directions. Combine ingredients replacing water called for on cake mix with liquid margarita mix. Bake as directed.
Ice and Garnish with Lime Slices or Lime Zest Curls as desired.
Lesson Learned: Before attempting to make chocolate chip cookies- make sure you have the chocolate chips! We were done making the dough for our cookies when I realized- we didn’t have any chips. Uh-Oh. So we improvised and I think the result turned out great! In fact, I will be making this on purpose from now on!
Cookie Cake Ingredients:
1 c. butter
1/2 c. Sugar
1/2 c. BrownSugar
1 egg
1 tsp. Vanilla
2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 350.
Combine flour, baking soda, salt in a bowl. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
Slowly add dry ingredients into creamed butter miture.
Spread in 9×13 baking pan.
Bake 20 minutes or until completely baked.
Vanilla Sauce:
1/2 c light brown sugar
1 tsp. flour
1 pinch ground cinnamon
1 egg
2 tbs. butter, melted
1 1/2 c. whole milk
1 pinch salt
1 tbs. vanilla extract
Directions:
Whisk brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, egg, milk, salt and melted butter together in sauce pan.
While constantly whisking, heat over medium heat until sauce is thick.
This takes about 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and add vanilla extract.
Stir well.
Pour sauce over cookie cake or place on the side to dip.
I LOVE Red Hot Candies. I can eat them by the handful! These cupcakes are so good if you are a fan of them as well!
Ingredients:
White Cake Mix + Required Ingredients (usually water, eggs and oil)
1/2 cup Red Hot Candies- crushed into chunks (Tip: place in a Freezer bag and use a meat tenderizing hammer to crush. Don’t crush too finely- you want small chunks not powder.)
Frosting of Choice
Directions:
Mix cake batter according to directions.
GENTLY mix in crushed red hot candies. Do not over mix or batter will become pink (well of course if you want pink batter- mix away!)
Bake according to directions.
Frost.